Washington 3 Cents

Why a different background? And why there is a white line under the number 3 in the left?

I borrowed this image from www.theswedishtiger.com for reference. It is a Scott #65.

I see that the area under the left '3' is different between the two images. Good observation!

Can you get a close-up picture of the '3'?




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These type of printing anomilies are common. This often occurs due to excessive whiting buildup in the polishing operation.

Here is another one-- check out the "ONE CENT"

Winston Sinclair described this for me this way: 'Your stamp is typical of what is called a "Dry Print". The pigment doesn't stick to the dry paper and flakes off. They are pretty much a dead giveaway that the stamp is from an outer margin. In this case it is the bottom margin. When the stamps were printed they kept the wetted sheets in stacks but the edges would dry out, creating these "Dry Prints"'



Ray